Features

Elgg was voted best open source social networking platform in 2008

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

Well-documented core API that allows developers to kick start their new project with a simple learning curve

Composer is the package manager of choice that greatly simplifes installation and maintenance of Elgg core and plugins

Flexible system of hooks and events that allows plugins to extend and modify most aspects of application's functionality and behavior

Extendable system of views that allows plugins to collaborate on application's presentation layer and built out complex custom themes

Cacheable system of static assets that allows themes and plugins to serve images, stylesheets, fonts and scripts bypassing the engine

Elgg on Github

You can follow the latest work in progress or contribute via GitHub.

Supporter Scheme

Are you an individual or organization who uses and likes Elgg? Consider becoming an official supporter of the Elgg project.
With only $50 per year for individuals or $150 per year for organizations, you can help the Elgg project.
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Hosting

If you are looking for somewhere to host your Elgg powered network, we are putting together
a list of providers who have added Elgg hosting to their services.